{"id":711439,"date":"2018-04-30T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711439"},"modified":"2018-05-01T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:37:04","slug":"a-historic-gift-for-wiley-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711439","title":{"rendered":"A Historic Gift for Wiley College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Wiley-College-Ponders.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Wiley-College-Ponders-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-711443\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL &#8211; Wiley College at Marshall has received a large, unrestricted gift. When Gene and school trustee Patsy Ponder visited the campus to say goodbye to school president Dr. Haywood L. Strickland, who is retiring in June, they had a check in hand. Their gift is the largest gift by an individual in the school&#8217;s 145 year history. The couple presented the school $2 million. It was their way of honoring Strickland and his 18 years of service to the school as well as to the community and to the United Methodist Church.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL &#8211; Wiley College at Marshall has received a large, unrestricted gift. When Gene and school trustee Patsy Ponder visited the campus to say goodbye to school president Dr. Haywood L. Strickland, who is retiring in June, they had a check in hand. Their gift is the largest gift by an individual in the school&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Historic Gift for Wiley College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":711443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 19:21:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711445,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711439\/revisions\/711445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/711443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}